Solicitor recommends conditional-use mitigations and impact-fee ordinance for data centers and solar projects

Solicitor Zach DuGan advised the Supervisors that when a use like a data center is permitted by conditional use, the board can attach facts and findings to require mitigations for greater-than-typical burdens on emergency response or roads. He said the township would need an Impact Fee Ordinance to assess impact fees and offered to circulate a template of how an impact-fee framework works to the Supervisors and the Planning Commission.